31.   Taking the city had its costs, though.

32.   The conflict over the return and the decision to take the city to court, parents said, tore the school community apart.

33.   The Israelis had recently taken the city and I asked the gnarled old merchant what that meant to him.

34.   The museum took the city to federal court.

35.   The Russian military, poised outside the secessionist capital of Grozny, could take the city at any time and is awaiting an order from President Boris N. Yeltsin.

36.   The rebellion began Sunday and the rebels quickly took two cities bordering Rwanda.

37.   The speed and extent of the flooding took the city by surprise.

38.   Then the Northern Alliance said it took the city, a claim staked by having a spokesman call the Cable News Network.

39.   When bankrupt cities are taken over, it is usually by state-appointed control boards that dictate fiscal policy until the cities return to solvency.

40.   While Chechen soldiers have clearly been battered and are running low on ammunition, the vastly more powerful Russian army has not been to take the city.